UN/CEFACT

The United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT) is a subsidiary, intergovernmental body of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) which serves as a focal point within the United Nations Economic and Social Council for trade facilitation recommendations and electronic business standards. It has global membership and its members are experts from intergovernmental organizations, individual countries' authorities and also from the business community.

The 33rd Forum was a success with around 300 participants, 50 nationalities, an average of 8 parallel meetings at all times throughout the week, 3 big conferences, 5 new projects in preparation and the advancement of all of the regular work.

23 May 2019: UN/CEFACT is pleased to launch a call for participation for the project “Readiness for Emergency Relief Importation”. This project will develop a recommendation to provide clear, accessible and concise best practice guidelines in enabling efficient clearance facilitation measures for humanitarian readiness and response. It will present the legislative frameworks but also describe what leadership in this field looks like. If you would like more information, please contact the project lead: Ms. Virginie Bohl.

15 May 2019: UN/CEFACT is pleased to launch a call for participation for the project “Sustainable Tourism White Paper” . Sustainable tourism is an integral part of the UN 2030 Agenda and aims to help stimulate local economies and reduce the environmental impact of tourism. This project will produce definitions, standards and guidelines on sustainable tourism initiatives. If you would like more information, please contact the project lead: Mr. Tunghua Tai.

10 May 2019: UN/CEFACT is pleased to launch a call for participation for the project “eCert Technical Implementation Guide”. This project will detail how to optimize the use of this government to government exchange standard and implement it in a way that is interoperable with other countries around the world. If you would like more information, please contact the project lead: Mr. Benno Slot.

6 May 2019: UN/CEFACT is pleased to launch a call for participation for the project “Cross border inter-ledger exchange for preferential certificates of origin using blockchain” . This project will provide guidance on exchanges between blockchain solutions on a government to government level while at the same time creating a clear semantic standard for Preferential CO. It will pay particular attention to considerations that will be necessary when creating, administering and using blockchain platforms destined to exchange data between governments and across multiple blockchain networks. Although initially focused on preferential CO, the inter-ledger framework is intended to support any G2G data exchange. If you would like more information, please contact the project lead: Mr. Steve Capell.

26 February 2019: UN/CEFACT is pleased to launch a call for participation for the project “Accounting and Audit Reference Data Model.” The project will develop a high-level semantic Reference Data Model in the area of Accounting and Audit. For this, the project will consider existing standards that are openly accessible and free of charge in the area of audit data representation and accounting in general. If you would like more information, please contact the project lead: Eric Cohen